Improvement in oil-cans



T. W'. MCNALLY.

OIL-GAN.

Patented Ju1y10,1877.

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l I lliL NPETERS. FHOT-LII'HOGRAFHERI WASHINGTON. C.

" UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS W. MGNALLY, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

IMPROVEMENT IN QlL-CANS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 193,017, dated July 10, 1877; application led May 31, 1877. r

To all whomzt mag/'concern Be it known that LTHoMAs W. McNALLY, of Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented certain Improvements in Oil-Cans, of which the following is a specification:

My invention relates to the' construction of a can to holdboil or other liquids, and providing the right and left side walls thereof with projecting pins or trunnions, by means of which it can be suspended in the corresponding walls of a box of wood or other suitable material, so that its top may turn and tilt freely, either backward or forward,.when the front and rear walls of the box shall have been removed, thc top of the can itself being provided with nozzles opening upward, one near the front wall, and the other near the rear wall, so that the can may be filled either way, and discharge the fluid from one nozzle, while, by the other, the air will be admitted in its place, and so that when the box may be laid upon its rear side, the two nozzles will be in a vertical position, and the can may be filled through one nozzle, while the other will serve as a vent for the air expelled by the oil or other iiuid.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view ot' the box, resting upon its bottom and the oilcan within it, in a vertical position, a part ot' one side wall being broken away in order to display the plate D, by which the wall of the can is reenforced, and the trunnion C extending perpendioularly out from it; Fig. 2, a horizontal section taken through the box and can, both as represented by the broken lines E F G H; and Fig. 3, an elevation of `one side of the box holding the can, the front and rear` slidkB and B are the two nozzles or pipes.

In case the can be made oftin or other thin sheet metal, and of large size, so that the weight of oil may be great, the sides and bottom may be further re-enforced by plates soldered or otherwise attached, and extending from the trunnion-plates down under the bottom of the can, and by extending the trunniouplates entirely around it.

Having fully described mylinvention, what I desire to secure by Letters Patent is- An oil-can provided with the trunion G U, in combination with the containing-box described, having its front and rear walls removable, snbstantially as and for the purpose described.

THOS. W. McNALLY. Attest: MIcHL. J. FILBUBN,

JAMES H. HoRAN. 

